Game



Sent' 1,` 1925.

G. MoDJEsKA 1,551,833

GAME

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ounnsmld Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

GERGE MODJ'ESKA, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS,

AssIGNoR or ONE-HALF rro vIo'ronH.

l GABLER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

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Application filed February 4, 1924. Serial No. 680,454.

To `all whom 'z't may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MoDJEsKA, a.

citizen of the United States, anda resident of Peoria, inthe county-of Peoria and State 6 `of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful `Improvements in Games, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencev being had to the accompanylng drawing, forming part of this spec-V i 10 itication.

My invention relates to cards with which specialk games may be played, which, have in addition to the fascination of playing a game, the further advantage lof a certain.

educational value;

One object of my invention is to provide an interestinggame which, for example, will teach 'the players the call lettersloca tion, wave length and sending' range ofrva-y rions radio broadcasting stations. l It is of course Vapparent that other subjects may be treated by the same or similar method.

The accompanying drawing represents eight cardsof a pack suitable for playing the gaine and of cards shown, the three appearingV at the top of the sheet, in addition to showing the essential features of the game, show a further step in the educational as well as the advertising value of the game.

By referring to the drawing it is to be notedV that each card carries an index on.

each corner and with particular reference to rthe'iirst card it will be seenthat this card carries index A, is geographically designated as New York, carries the call letters WEAF, indicates that this radio station broadcasts on a wavelength of 492 meters, and has a sendingrange of1500 miles.V Similarly each of the other cards shown has its index, radio station, location, wave length and sending range designated. y

To refer to the advertising value of the game, it will be noted that the three cards forming the upper tier of those shown carin cases where the game is to be distributed by the manufacturerof some particular loud speaker or other radio apparatus, an illus? which are triplieates, that is to say,'there ries the representation of a loud speaker andV kwill be three of the cards like the first one designated as A-l/VEAlLNew York, and similarly three of each of the others to complete the pack. y

The procedure in playing the game is that after the `cards are well shuffled, each player is dealt tive cards, one at a time face down and the remainder of the pack placed in the center of the table. In playing the game as now described, the word radio forms a part of the play and if when he examines his cards one of the players finds that he hasv cards having index letters spelling the word radio, that hand of the game is concluded and the player having these cards announces radio and lays his cards face up upon the table and counts ten points.

If'no such announcement is made upoir the completion of the deal, the player yto the left of the dealer draws the top card from the remainder of the pack and after arranging his cards in a manner satisfactory to himself, discards a card face up adjacent to the remainder of the pack. It' the result of this drawing is to complete the spelling of kthe word radio this player makes his announcement and scores his points.

- If a player has or draws all of the three cards Ofvone station, heV plays them face up and scores four points. When a player has or draws two cards of any one station, he may play them face up and score one point.

y. VAfter a player has drawn and-discarded, Y the player next to his left, may either draw the discard, the value of which he knows,

or he may draw onefrom the remainder of the pack, and the play continues until one of the players has played his five cards or until the pack is exhausted at which time the various scores are recorded for each player, and the cards re-shutiled and again dealt. v

Twenty-five points is a game.'

It will be seen from the above that a pack consists of sets of groups of cards, all of the cards of one group agreeing with the others and having the same index; that the play consists of either using the indices to form a predetermined combination, or playing the cards in groups or fractional groups.

It will also be seen that the play may consist in predetermining a total for the meters or wave length, or the miles of sendnsL ing range (in packs arranged as illustrated) and permitting a play when that total has been obtained.

It will also be'seen that by arranging illustrations of Various apparatus on the cards, the feature oi advertising can be given considerable prominence.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim: Y

1. A card game comprising a plurality of groups of cards each group carrying the call letters of a radio broadcasting station and a letter index.

2. A card gaine comprising'a plurality of groups of cards, each group carrying the call letters of a radio broadcasting station, the name of the city" Where such station is located, and a letter index.

3. A card game comprising a plurality of cards each card carrying an identification of' a radio broadcasting station and an index.

Y4L. A card game comprising a plurality of cards each card 'carrying the identification of a radio broadcasting station, an index, and the Wave length oic that station.

5. A card game comprising a plurality of Vcards each carrying the identilication of a radio broadcasting` station, an index, the Wave length` of that station, and its sending range.

6. A card game comprising a plurality of groups of cards each group carrying the identification of a radio broadcasting station, an index, the .Wave length of that station, and its sending range,

GEORGE MODJESKA. 

